Details on the graduate programme and how to apply
The Shell Graduate Programme offers a world-class framework to help you make the most of your potential, personally and professionally.
The Shell Graduate Programme lasts at least 3 years, and is the beginning of a career-long development that places high value on flexibility and a great work-life balance.
What to expect on the Programme
Your Learning Journey
Within your three years in the programme, you will be molded to be a future leader through a range of development opportunities which may include job rotations, on-the-job challenges, formal training and coaching.
Tailored Graduate Development
At Shell, we empower graduates to take ownership of your own development.
Co-created by you and your line manager to make the best of your individual strengths, your unique plan is an agreed course of action to help you keep track of your progress and steer your learning.
Using this plan as a guide, you will actively manage your development while your line manager will provide the necessary enablement.
End-of-Programme Assessment
At the end of your programme, your performance and achievements will be reviewed. Upon a successful outcome, an exciting next phase of the journey will commence.
Choose the Shell path for you
Shell is one of the world鈥檚 largest companies, with variety of roles and opportunities, globally. To help you find the best place for your skills, we have organised our Graduate Programme into three distinct business areas.
The Commercial Graduate Programme offers a wide range of opportunities for you to demonstrate delivering commercial value across Shell. Joining this Programme will drive your development by enabling you to closely collaborate and create solutions together with our customers, business partners and suppliers to accelerate profitability in the Energy Transition.
Your Shell Commercial Graduate Programme experience
You will undertake two different 18-month commercial assignments during your time on the Programme. Regardless of which part of the business you will work for, you will be exposed to multiple elements of the end-to-end value chain, learning the dynamics of profit and loss and how to deliver commercial value for our customers, whilst leveraging data analytics and digital ways of working.
The types of roles and experiences we offer are broad and you will have real responsibility from day one. You could be working in Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Business Development, Supply & Distribution Operations, Asset Economics, Deal Making, Customer Solutions or Pricing.
As you progress through different experiences and projects, we鈥檒l also provide you with diverse and enriching learning opportunities. These will be in the form of not only traditional training courses, e-learning modules and workshops, but also focused on social learning, connects with senior commercial leaders and through case studies for you to work on with your fellow Graduates from across the globe.
Upon successful completion of the Roundtable assessment, you will be ready to continue your commercial career in your discipline of interest.
Lines of business you can explore
We have opportunities across the breadth of Shell. Most assignments are in Downstream Renewables & Energy Solutions businesses where we serve around 32 million customers a day at 46,000 service stations and provide products to more than 1 million business customers across 160 countries. This includes Mobility, Global Lubricants, Chemicals & Products, Trading & Supply, Shell Energy and Low Carbon Solutions business. If you are interested 麻豆传媒 about each line of business, please explore this page on our website - What we do | Shell Global
Life beyond learning
Along with opportunities to learn and grow, we want your first years at Shell to be enjoyable, sociable, and to help you develop other skills that are vital for a promising career, from communication to building relationships. Day-to-day life at Shell gives you plenty of chances to meet people, network and really enjoy the social side of work. At Shell, work-life balance is highly valued, as is community.
Powering Graduates
Powering Graduates offers a series of unique development opportunities relevant for all the Graduates regardless of their business area.
Thriving with a supportive community
Teamwork is vital for us to achieve our common goal. At Shell, you will experience working with a diverse and collaborative global network who will always be able to help you solve day-to-day challenges.
Apart from being part of the Global Graduate Community, you are also welcome to join Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) in Shell, including the Women鈥檚 Network, the enABLE Network for employees with disabilities, and our LGBT+ Network, among others.
Listening to what you have to say
At Shell, you鈥檒l be encouraged to voice your ideas and concerns. Your diverse thoughts and inputs are valuable, and you鈥檒l find how leaders will enable you to speak up and share your insights to the table.
Rewarding your hard work
You鈥檒l be recognized and rewarded with a compensation and benefits package considered to be among the best in the industry, including a competitive starter salary, with performance related pay and allowances.
How to apply?
Our Graduates, while diverse in background and skillsets, come together with key traits and behaviours that aid their success in the programme. These include qualities such as their capacity to analyse situations and propose purposeful solutions that align with our strategic goals, adaptability towards learning and growing from feedback in order to deliver results, and how they nurture relationships and work effectively with a diverse team.
The application process
What we look for
Our Graduates, while diverse in background and skillsets, come together with key traits and behaviours that aid their success in the programme. These include qualities such as their capacity to analyse situations and propose purposeful solutions that align with our strategic goals, adaptability towards learning and growing from feedback in order to deliver results, and how they nurture relationships and work effectively with a diverse team.
Our basic requirements
We welcome applicants who have either already graduated from a recognised university or are in the final year of their degree course.
For Technical roles in certain countries, we do ask that you have already obtained or are studying towards a Master鈥檚 degree or equivalent qualification. In other countries, many of our technical roles are for a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
For Commercial and Global Functions roles, we are looking for a Bachelor鈥檚 degree or equivalent.
Validity of the assessment outcome
Please note that after submitting a Graduate Programme application, any further applications during a 10-month period will be auto-progressed, based on the outcome of the first application. Therefore, if you have a successful application and re-apply to a different position in a 10-month period, your application will automatically proceed through Stage One. Alternatively, if you have an unsuccessful application and re-apply to a different position in a 10-month period, your application will be automatically regretted.
